Eric Holder: ‘We’re really at the beginning’ of questions about Trump obstructing justice

Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that “we’re really at the beginning, maybe the middle” of questions about whether President Trump obstructed justice. 

Holder made the remark during an interview on MSNBC, one day after Attorney General William Barr said in a letter to Congress that special counsel Robert Mueller did not reach a conclusion while investigating whether Trump obstructed justice. 

{mosads}Barr also said in the letter that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein determined there was insufficient evidence that Trump obstructed justice.

Holder on Monday called for more detailed findings from Mueller’s report to be released publicly.

“With regard to obstruction, I think we’re really at the beginning, maybe the middle of this whole process. Findings have been made. We need to see what those were. We need to see exactly what was the nature of the interaction between Bob Mueller and Bill Barr,” he said.

“And then we also need to understand, how was it that Bill Barr reached these conclusions? What were the things that he went through? What laws did he apply? What rules did he apply? How did he interpret the appropriate rules and statutes? How did he apply the facts,” Holder continued.

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Holder added during the interview that Congress and the American people “are entitled to hear substantially more” than Barr’s letter to Congress.

“This is just a 4-page memo that makes really consequential determinations and it seems to me that the American people and Congress are entitled to hear substantially more than simply this document,” Holder said.